Tuesday, April 11, 2017

HB Revolutionary War Event 2017

I finally managed to kit out the whole family!

My husbands clothing are made from two patterns

J.P. Ryan Breeches and Butterick 3072 Coat, Waistcoat and Shirt.

There were a lot of "wins" going on in this outfit for me. First: I did this all in a about 2 weeks..all of it. That's including the boys clothes. And I finally completed those damn breeches, yes they are definitely not for the faint of heart. They run incredibly small, which made me try scaling a pattern for the first time. It just barely worked.

My eldest son is wearing:

Granny's Attic Toddler Boys Suit (Knickerbockers), Shirt is loosely based off of a diagram, Waistcoat is based off of Butterick 3072.

Bis E's clothing were not hard at all to construct. I made up the knickerbockers from the GA pattern easily. His shirt is made from a diagram I found on Pinterest, which is just rectangles and squares. The same as most any other 18th c shirt. I used the directions from here, to create a basic body block from his measurements and then drew in the lines for the vest. Not as hard as you might think.

Little E's clothes are really wonderful. These were sewn by hand. I always enjoy the historical sewing techniques included with these patterns. Easy to follow and fun to make. This is if you like to hand sew, which I do. The only drawback is that the general public don't understand that this is how boys were dressed then. Poor guy got called a girl a lot.